All articles by Editorial - Joey Gardiner – Page 12
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Bank extends loan deadline for High-Point Rendel
Barclays agrees to two-month breathing space to repay £3m loan after clients fail to pay consultant's fees.
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Civils reach end of growth road
The workload of civil engineering companies has decreased over the past 12 months, according to a survey by trade body Civil Engineering Contractors Association
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FeaturesPoor old you
More and more firms are reacting to deficits in their pension funds by, in effect, slashing their staff's retirement income. They say they are staving off financial disaster; others claim it is a grotesque rip-off. We investigate a deepening crisis.
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FeaturesTop 100 Contractors and Housebuilders 2003
Directors justify their salaries by pointing to market forces. But the spectacle of poorly performing bosses skipping away from their disasters encumbered by sackfuls of cash has hardened opinion against those whose remuneration exceeds their talent.
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Six sign £300m council framework
Balfour Beatty and Wates are among six contractors that have signed a £300m framework agreement with Hampshire council to provide high-value construction work
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NewsWates launches drive to double housing business
Contractor aims to use prefabrication methods to raise residential sales from £50m to £100m by 2008.
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NewsPension crisis deepens as firms shut schemes to existing staff
Rok and Alfred McAlpine close final salary schemes and predict that other companies are about to follow suit.
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NewsDirectors under fire as pay doubles in eight years
Highest earners on the defensive as Building survey reveals widening gap between top brass and workers.
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NewsSearch on for executives to oversee Thames Gateway
Chairs for two key urban development corporations to receive £45,000 each for two-day week.
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FeaturesKeith Hill
Only a month into the job and the housing minister has absorbed the government's line about having a 'vision' for urban regeneration. But when it comes to expounding the finer policy points, he seems less sure of himself.
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Profit warning stops Carillion cold
Contractor Carillion's rapid share price rise has been checked after a profit warning
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NewsC&M set to pounce on Headway
Commercial and residential developer Country & Metropolitan aims to start takeover talks with rival developer Headway
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US guru to upgrade UK hospital design
An American hospital design guru is to be drafted in by NHS Estates to help improve its hospital architecture
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NewsPidgley: I'm staying for 10 years
Berkeley Group chief executive Tony Pidgley has said he wants to stay at the helm of the company he founded for at least another decade
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NewsLottery set to fund revamp of four landmark buildings
Tate Modern, the Lowry, Eden Centre and The Deep expect to be awarded cash for improvements next week.
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NewsAtkins poaches Clarke
Skanska 'not best pleased' after one of its top executives jumps ship to head UK's largest consultant.
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NewsTime to create regeneration training body, says CABE
Architecture watchdog to submit five-point plan to Sir John Egan aimed at tackling regeneration skills shortage.
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FeaturesEmpty promises?
Prescott's plan to build the homes that southern England so desperately needs is not going to work without a huge increase in funding. So far, there is little sign that he has the money or the political support to make it happen.
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Industry growth set to fall sharply, says report
CPA forecasts 1% growth next year – compared with 8% in 2002 – because of downturn in office sector.
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City scorns McCarthy family bid to buy £600m firm
The City has poured scorn on the McCarthy family’s attempt to buy out retirement home specialist McCarthy & Stone this week.